Government Center (MDT station)

Government Center
Metrorail metro station Metromover people mover station
Government Center station is located at the base of the Stephen P. Clark Government Center building
Location	Metrorail: 101 NW First Street Miami, Florida 33128 Metromover: 138 NW Third Street Miami, Florida 33128
Coordinates	25°46′33″N 80°11′45″W / 25.77583°N 80.19583°W / 25.77583; -80.19583Coordinates: 25°46′33″N 80°11′45″W / 25.77583°N 80.19583°W / 25.77583; -80.19583
Owned by	Miami-Dade County
Line(s)	Metrorail:   Green Line   Orange Line Metromover:   Inner Loop   Omni Loop   Brickell Loop
Platforms	1 island platform (Metrorail) 2 side platforms (Metromover)
Tracks	2 (Metrorail) 2 (Metromover)
Connections	MiamiCentral (2017) Metrobus: 2, 3, 7, 9, 11, 21, 51, 77, 93, 95, C (103), S (119), 120, 195, 207, 208, 246, 277 and 500 Broward County Transit (BCT): 95, 595, Taxicabs
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Platform levels	4
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	GVT
History
Opened	May 20, 1984 (Metrorail) April 17, 1986 (Metromover)
Traffic
Passengers (2011)	3.2 million (Metrorail)  3%
Passengers (Feb 2014)	299,806 (Metrorail (Miami))
Passengers (Feb 2014)	210,134 (Metromover)
Services
Preceding station   Metrorail   Following station Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre toward Palmetto Green Line Brickell toward Dadeland South Historic Overtown/Lyric Theatre toward Miami Int'l Airport Orange Line Preceding station   Metromover   Following station Miami Avenue toward Government Center Inner Loop Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. One-way operation Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. One-way operation Brickell Loop Third Street toward Financial District Omni Loop Third Street toward School Board   MiamiCentral interchange   Preceding station   Florida East Coast Railway   Following station   Future services   Terminus Brightline (2017) Fort Lauderdale toward Orlando Preceding station   SFRTA   Following station   Future services   Terminus Downtown Miami Link (2017) Metrorail Transfer toward Mangonia Park
Location

Government Center station is an intermodal transit hub in the Government Center district of Downtown Miami, Florida. It is operated by Miami-Dade Transit and serves as an transfer station for the Metrorail and Metromover rapid transit systems and as a bus station for Metrobus, Paratransit, and Broward County Transit buses. The station is located near the intersection of Northwest First Street and First Avenue, a part of the Stephen P. Clark Government Center Building. It opened to service May 20, 1984, next to the site of former FEC railway station.

Next to Government Center site was originally a railroad station developed in April 1896 as the southern terminus of Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway (FEC). The downtown passenger terminal was demolished by November 1963. Although a new station was planned at the Buena Vista yard near North Miami Avenue and 36th Street (US 27), it was never built. The site of the old station was parking lots on the east side of the modern transportation hub until 2014. It is now the construction site of the MiamiCentral station of All Aboard Florida's Brightline.